Sadly, too many Jews relate to Israel not as a state, but as some holy reality. Despairing of spiritual salvation after God failed to show up and save us from the Holocaust, increasing numbers of Jews have abandoned the religion of compassion and identification with the most oppressed that was championed by our Biblical prophets. Instead, they’ve come to worship power and to rejoice in Israel’s ability to become the most militarily powerful state in the Middle East. If a Jew today goes into any synagogue in the United States or around the world and says, “I don’t believe in God or Torah and I don’t follow the commandments,” most will still welcome her in and urge her to become involved. But if the same person says, “I don’t support the State of Israel,” she is likely to be labeled a ‘self-hating Jew’ or an anti-Semite to be scorned and dismissed. As Aaron said of the golden calf in the desert, “These are your Gods, O Israel!” The idolatrous view that God is working through the Israel Defense Forces has led some Jews to believe that this powerful army is “the most moral army on earth,” and no amount of senseless killing of civilians breaks through this religious worship.

[YmD: The Jews believe Aaron led the Jews to worship the heifer in the absence of Moses. Islam does not subscribe to this view.]

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Evidence is now Conclusive

The latest report from the intelligence community was headlined on 3 August 2014 by Robert Parry, “Flight 17 Shoot-Down Scenario Shifts,” and he revealed there that, “contrary to the Obama administration’s public claims blaming eastern Ukrainian rebels and Russia for the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, some U.S. intelligence analysts have concluded that the rebels and Russia were likely not at fault and that it appears Ukrainian government forces were to blame, according to a source briefed on these findings.”

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Jews in Algeria

The offer made to Algerians by colonial French officials to take over confiscated Jewish property found many French settlers ready to profit from the scheme, but no Arab participated and, in the capital, Algiers itself, Muslim clerics openly declared their opposition to the idea. While some Arabs collaborated with the Axis powers by working as guards in labor camps, others risked their own lives to attempt to save Jews from persecution and genocide. [Source: Wikipedia]

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Belgistan

The graffiti on a building in Belgium says: “Welcome to ‘Belgistan.’” Muslims are still a minority in Belgium, but in the capital of Brussels, they’re already the largest religious group, comprising one-quarter of the city’s population. In less than 20 years they’re expected to be the majority. The most confrontational Muslim group here is Sharia4Belgium. Sharia4Belgium head, Fouad Belkacem, alias Abu Imran, sounded very serious when he told CBN News he expects Muslims to dominate Belgium and the world. “The Sharia will dominate,” Imran said. “We believe Sharia will be implemented worldwide.” [Courtesy: http://www.cbn.com/tv/1520937084001]

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Unknown and Ineffective Jews Speak Out

225 Jewish survivors and descendants of Jewish survivors of the Nazi genocide have signed a letter condemning Israel’s massacre in Gaza and calling for an end to the genocide of the Palestinian people. In the letter, they also speak out against the abuse of their histories to promote the dehumanization of Palestinians. The survivors further condemned “the United States for providing Israel with the funding to carry out the attack, and Western states more generally for using their diplomatic muscle to protect Israel from condemnation.” The survivors wrote that they were ‘alarmed’ by the dehumanization of Palestinians in the Israeli media, “which has reached a fever-pitch. In Israel, politicians and pundits in The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post have called openly for genocide of Palestinians and right-wing Israelis are adopting Neo-Nazi insignia.” The full letter and the list of survivors and their descendants who have signed it can be seen at the following web link: http://ijsn.net/gaza/survivors_and_descendents-letter/.

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Jews ‘Forced’ to Leave Guatemala Village

Some 230 members of an Orthodox Jewish group called Lev Tahorhave begun leaving a village in western Guatemala after a bitter row with the local indigenous community.The elders of the village accused the Jews of shunning the villagers and imposing their religion and customs. They said the Jewish members were undermining the Catholic faith that was predominant in San Juan La Laguna. They say the Jews do not mix with them, and sometimes refuse to talk. The locals are Catholic. Many of the Jewish group members had been living in the village for six years but some had arrived earlier this year from Canada after a row with the authorities.They condemn the State of Israel as illegal, and follow orthodox Judaism. Their women, even their little girls, wear Burqa, although a few do not cover their faces. Israelis call them Jewish Taliban.

Lev Tahor Women

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George Galloway Attacked and leaves hospital

George Galloway – the pro-Muslim British MP was briefly treated for injuries he suffered in a street attack in west London. The MP suffered ‘severe’ bruising to his head and appears to have broken some ribs, his spokesman said. The spokesman said the attack on Mr. Galloway seemed to have been prompted by the MP’s views on Israel. A man has been arrested over the attack.The attacker allegedly called Mr. Galloway ‘a Hitler’ during the assault. Mr. Galloway was interviewed (read interrogated) under caution by police earlier this month over remarks he made about Israel. He had said, “We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel.”

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Australian Father Charged with Abusing Surrogate Twins

An Australian has been charged with sexually abusing twins he fathered with a Thai surrogate, reports say. This is the second case in as many months to ignite debate about commercial surrogacy.

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Israel Underestimated Gaza Militants: Top Army Official

A senior army intelligence official has admitted that Israel underestimated the tenacity of Gaza militants and did not expect a 50-day conflict to last so long, but he insisted they were soundly beaten. The conflict, which ended with a ceasefire, killed more than 2,100 Palestinians, as well as 66 soldiers and six civilians on the Israeli side, in the bloodiest battle between the Jewish state and Gaza militants for years. “If you’d asked me two months ago, I wouldn’t assess that it’s going to take us 50 days,” the official told journalists in English at a briefing in Tel Aviv [recently]. He said the training of some Hamas militants had impressed him. “They were in pretty good shape and pretty well-trained,” he said of amphibious commando-style raids by Hamas militants on Israeli shores. The UN says some 70% of Palestinian fatalities were civilians.

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Sold Out

“My Ph.D. dissertation chairman, who became a high Pentagon official assigned to wind down the Vietnam war, in answer to my question about how Washington gets Europeans to always do what Washington wants replied: ‘Money, we give them money.’ ‘Foreign aid?’ I asked. ‘No, we give the European political leaders bagfuls of money. They are for sale; we bought them. They report to us.’” (By Paul Craig Roberts)

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False and Fake

Dozens of photos circulating on social media networks and the media claiming to show the barbaric acts of the Islamist group are, in fact, fake. While ISIS has claimed responsibility for multiple acts of horrific violence, many of the shocking images published online and attributed to the jihadist group have actually been taken out of context and falsely labelled. ISIS has claimed responsibility for multiple acts of terrifying barbarism. Online and in the media, it’s possible to find dozens of horrifying images attributed to the jihadist group. Yet many of these are not what has been claimed. Several media outlets posted online photos that claimed to show mass execution of civilians belonging to the Yazidi religious minority. The jihadist organisation posted these same photos on social media networks [recently], pointing out that they had been taken in Syria. These photos show the execution of a group of men from the ‘Chouïtat’ clan who rebelled against ISIS in Deir-Ezzor. [Courtesy: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39575.htm]

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Severity of Poverty

In the United States, the official poverty rate for 2012 stood at 15% based on the national poverty line which is equivalent to around $16 per person per day. Of the 46.5 million Americans living in poverty, 20.4 million live under half the poverty line. This begs the question of just how poor America’s poorest people are. [Courtesy: http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2014/08]

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In Defiance (Read Agreement) of the World

The Israeli military-run Civil Administration has announced a land appropriation of some 400 hectares in the West Bank to an almost immediate condemnation from anti-settlement activists, who say this is the biggest seizure in 30 years. Around 400 hectares of land in the Etzion settlement area near the town of Bethlehem were declared “state land, on the instructions of the political echelon” by the Civil Administration [recently]. Israel Radio said that announcement was made in response to the killing of three Jewish teens in June by Hamas militants in the same area.

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Did Jesus exist?

Did the historical Jesus exist? A growing number of scholars don’t think so. Most antiquities scholars think that the New Testament gospels are ‘mythologized history.’ In other words, they think that around the start of the first century a controversial Jewish rabbi, named Yeshua ben Yosef, gathered a following and his life and teachings provided the seed that grew into Christianity. [http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/30/]

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Beware of Muslims!

Oklahoma GOP to Christians: “Be ‘wary’ of Muslim Americans — they’ll ‘decapitate you.’” The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) Oklahoma chapter is criticizing a state representative who posted on Facebook that his constituents should ‘be especially wary’ of anyone who refers to him – or herself as a ‘Muslim American,’ The Oklahoman reports.

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The Age of Lies

The father of a SEAL Team 6 member who died in a helicopter crash says the Obama administration lied to him and the other families about the details surrounding the deaths of members of the squad that killed Osama bin Laden. Billy Vaughn, father of Navy SEAL, Aaron Vaughn, who was among 30 who died in 2011 when their Chinook helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan, told J. D. Hayworth on America’s Forum on Newsmax TVthat what the families were initially told about why the helicopter was shot down later turned out to be a lie. “We live in a lie, and the lie is ever-expanding,” said Dr. Paul Craig Roberts in another context.

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Ron Paul: Government had Foreknowledge of 9/11

Former Rep. Ron Paul said he believes the U.S. government had prior knowledge of the 11th September 2001 terrorist attacks and has kept this information hidden in a classified section of the 9/11 Commission report. Paul, who made the comments during a radio interview [recently], also argued that the crimes of Osama bin Laden were ‘minor’ compared to the harm the U.S. government has caused since the 2001 attacks. “I believe that if we ever get the full truth [about 9/11], we’ll find out that our government had it in the records exactly what the plans were, or at least close to it,” said Paul, during the interview with Money and Markets host, Charles Goyette. The former congressman also claimed the U.S. government was covering up the full truth of the John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations.

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Take care of Yourself

Somebody dies by taking their own life every 40 seconds, according to a significant report by the World Health Organization (WHO). It said suicide was a ‘major public health problem’ that was too often shrouded in taboo. The WHO wants to reduce the rate of suicide by 10% by 2020, but warned just that 28 countries have a national suicide prevention strategy. Campaigners said there needed to be more education in schools. The WHO analyzed ten years of research and data on suicide from around the world. It concluded: around 800,000 people kill themselves every year. It was the second leading cause of death in young people, aged 15 to 29

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Dutch Quack Dentist

A fugitive Dutch dentist accused of mutilating dozens of French patients has been arrested in Canada following an international manhunt. Mark Van Nierop, whose real first name is Jacobus, has been sought under an international arrest warrant since February on charges including ‘intentional violence causing permanent mutilation.’ He was arrested [recently] in the small town of Nackawic in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. It is not yet known how he was found.

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One in Ten Girls Sexually Abused

About 120 million girls around the world – slightly more than one in ten – have been raped or sexually assaulted by the age of 20, a UN report says. The children’s agency, UNICEF, also says 95,000 children and teenagers – most of them in Latin America and the Caribbean – were murdered in 2012 alone. The document draws on data from 190 countries. The violence ‘cuts across boundaries of age, geography, religion, ethnicity and income brackets,’ UNICEF Executive Director, Anthony Lake, said.

A little girl hiding her shame

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Safe Nowhere

UK: A female teacher who had sex with a female pupil she taught at an all-girls private school has been jailed for 15 months. Emily Fox, from Bath, pleaded guilty at St. Albans Crown Court to four counts of sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl while in a position of trust. The court heard Fox exchanged hundreds of “sexually explicit” messages with the girl after they met in November 2012. A few months later they developed an “intense” bond that involved kissing and later sexual touching, the court was told. The fee in the school is 25000 pounds a year.

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The Peace-Keepers They

The US and other western powers have exerted pressure on the International Criminal Court at the Hague to prevent a war crimes probe of Israel’s operation in the Gaza Strip, The Guardian reported [recently], quoting former court officials. During Operation Protective Edge, the Palestinian Authority has threatened to request that the court look into allegations that the civilian deaths in Gaza during the IDF’s operation constitute a war crime. According to the report, the issue is among the matters being discussed at cease-fire talks in Cairo.

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What 5,104 White-skinned Bishops Would Not Say

“My plea to the people of Israel: ‘Liberate yourselves by liberating Palestine,’” said Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, in an exclusive article for Haaretz. He calls for a global boycott of Israel and urges Israelis and Palestinians to look beyond their leaders for a sustainable solution to the crisis in the Holy Land.

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Asian Games: Qatar Women’s Team Pull Out over Hijab Ban

The Qatar women’s basketball team has withdrawn from the Asian Games in South Korea after being denied permission to wear the hijab during games. The players were asked to remove the Islamic head scarf before taking on Mongolia but refused and forfeited. World basketball regulations list headgear and hair accessories among the items that are prohibited on court. With no sign that the rule would be relaxed before their next match against Nepal, the team decided to pull out. Other sports at the Asian Games allow athletes to wear the hijab; all four members of the Iranian lightweight women’s quadruple sculls team wore it as they rowed to a bronze medal on Wednesday.

Arrested for No Specific Reason

Nine men, including the radical Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary, have been arrested in London on suspicion of being members of a banned organisation. Officers are searching eighteen premises in London and one in Stoke-on-Trent. The Met Police said it was part of an ongoing inquiry into Islamist-related terrorism and not in response to any immediate threat to the public. Mr. Choudary is the former UK head of the Islamist group, al-Muhajiroun, or Islam4UK, banned in the UK in 2010. The arrested men, aged between 22 and 51, are being held at police stations in central London.

[YmD: Islam-hater British must be relishing the news. But, they must realize that this is how the common British will be treated one day: arrest and harass on the pretext of suspicion. Can they not see what’s happening in USA, and what their own intellectuals are saying about it?]

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Among the major publications of IQRA Publications is the popular Islamic monthly in English, the Young Muslim Digest, arguably among the foremost in this type of publishing in India. This magazine is being brought out regularly by IQRA Publications since the past 36 years.